XML Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

∟DOM (Document Object Model) Programming Interface

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on DOM (Document Object Model). Topics include introduction to DOM programming interface; Java implementation of DOM; DOM Core specifications; Java example of parsing XML files; printing DOM Node tree; building new Document objects; converting Document objects to XML files.

What Is DOM (Document Object Model)?

Using DOM Implementation Provided in JDK 1.4

DOM Specifications and DOM Node Interface

DOMBrowser.java - DOM Interface Java Example

XML DOM Node Tree Example

Building a New DOM Document Object

Converting DOM Document Objects to XML Files

Conclusion:

• DOM (Document Object Model) is an Application Programming Interface (API) that represents an XML file as a document object.
• DOM has 4 levels of specifications. Currently, most applications are supporting DOM Level 1.
• A DOM document object is really a tree of node objects. There about 12 node types that all share the same node interface.
• JDK 1.4 has built-in support of DOM interface that allows you to parse XML files, create document objects, or convert document objects back to XML files.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

 XML File Syntax

 XML File Browsers

►DOM (Document Object Model) Programming Interface

 SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface

 DTD (Document Type Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of DTD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified DTD Document Type

 XSD (XML Schema Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of XSD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified XML Schema

 XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) Introduction

 XSLT (XSL Transformations) Introduction

 Java Implementation of XSLT

 XPath (XML Path) Language

 XSLT Elements as Programming Statements

 Control and Generate XML Element in the Result

 References

 Printable Copy - PDF Version